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Old 13th Nov 2014, 16:00
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RAT 5
 
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Ah, but big brother is alive & well in EU. Some environmental guru has decreed that in an airport with 10's of movements per hour, fuel truck, catering trucks, countless run about vehicle on the move, etc. etc, running the APU longer than 10 mins after ATA & 10 mins prior ATD will upset the local population of whatever animal you care to think of: by noise & air pollution. Thus it is banned. The same said guru no doubt has a finger in the pie of people who make GPU's (which are possibly more polluting on both counts) and stand in-built airco units. Common sense went down the swannie years ago: witness the often slow speed restrictions on highways passing airports. You are passing through urbanisation so slower speed equals better air quality. Yep, until the next 737/340/380 launches.
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